Yaroslav Kalashnikov

Yaroslav Kalashnikov was a Major of the Ukraine Airborne at the time of the March 2014 Crimean Crisis, during which he manned a checkpoint at Kherson on mainland Ukraine. In an 11 March 2014 interview with Vice News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky, he said that his goal was to prevent people and goods from being smuggled into or out of the Crimea.